Cabbage and Black-Eyed Peas, Oh My! An Easy New Year’s Dish with a Long History
Yes, I know, you’re overwhelmed with preparations for Christmas. If you’re like me, you’re still trying to come up with …
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Thomas Jefferson and His Magic “Maccaroni” Machine
Thomas Jefferson, rightly or wrongly credited with first bringing pasta to the tables of Americans, drew a picture of a …
Idylls of Cuisine, #44
[A picture, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Chocolate and Coffee Pots from Colonial Williamsburg: Slideshow
Chocolate and Coffee Pots from Colonial Williamsburg collections, a parade of eighteenth-century goodies. Note the lamb’s head on the end …
Idylls of Cuisine, #43
[A picture, and nothing else, for silent contemplation.]
Civil War Christmases
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with 100 and 50 guns and plenty …
Christmas Dinner at Mount Vernon, 1790
George Washington’s Virginia plantation, Mount Vernon, served as the backdrop for many scrumptious dinners, cooked by Washington’s slave cooks. Just …
Christmas in Colonial Williamsburg
Now Christmas comes, ‘tis fit that we Should feast and sing, and merry be; Keep open house, let fiddlers play, …
Christmas in Antebellum Virginia: Part II
Dey ‘s a-wokin’ in de qua’tahs a-preparin’ fu’ de feas’, So de little pigs is feelin’ kind o’ shy. De …
Good Golly, Miss Molly: Mary Randolph’s Boarding House
In March, 1808, readers of The Richmond Virginia Gazette would have read the following advertisement in the pages of that …
